Improve colors in the "Dark" score theme

[BigHonkinDaddy]

Description The Dark score theme (accessed under File->Preferences->General is my preference and is useful especially for creating split screen videos that combine video of my performances with the video screen capture of the tabs from Powertab's Midi player. The "dark" them works best, visually, for this. However, the midi player controls (blue and red) are hard to see and follow in the dark theme. Furthermore, tied notes which are light grey are not easily distinguishable from the white notes/tabs in the dark theme.

Would love to see the color scheme under the "dark" theme improved - maybe even allow for users to assign their own colors to the midi player and score elements.

Lastly, the "Dark" theme seems only to apply to the score itself, leaving the menu bar, toolbar, mixer, and instrument windows still in the default light grey. Would like to see the "dark" theme apply to the entire application.

[cameronwhite]

Yep, the score colours could definitely use a bit of tweaking!

The rest of the widgets are following the system theme, so if you have a dark theme set that should be respected (e.g. https://powertab.github.io/images/screenshot_macos.png) . It would be possible to add some customization on our end, though

[BigHonkinDaddy]

Huh. I have my Windows 10 in "dark mode" but only see the original "light" version of PT. Not a huge deal, but wonder what I'm doing wrong...

[cameronwhite]

Thanks, yeah looking around on Google it sounds like Qt doesn't handle the Windows dark theme yet, so we'll probably have to do something ourselves

[cameronwhite]

I've made some changes to tied notes and the caret to hopefully be better in the dark theme: Before:

After:

[BigHonkinDaddy]

Looks great!

[luzpaz]

Can this issue be closed ?

[cameronwhite]

I think the remaining work here was to have a dark theme for the whole application, like for the Windows screenshot above